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When she stepped ashore in Haifa, she wept. Feige Fried's mother, seven brothers and sisters would never know Palestine's freedom. They had disappeared into the Nazi crematorium at Oswiecim; Feige escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Big Brotherly Advice | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...face for the first time in his life with his seaman father, home from the Pacific. On a New Orleans dockside R. H. Bryant and his wife stood and looked at the spot on the quarter-deck of the battleship Mississippi where their son Jim had died. They wept and went away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Navy Day, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...Minister of Economics Walther Funk wept: "I can request counsel at once, can't I? I am trying to preserve my health. I have the greatest interest in the conclusion of this trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Defendants | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...nothing else could, the imperial homage to MacArthur told the people that Japan was truly beaten. A railway ticket-seller, when he heard the news, dropped his rice bowl, laid his head on the counter and wept. He said: "My heart is frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Frozen Heart | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...with that shrewd pity which results from old people's knowledge that every lifetime is short, that even children do not have long to live. Now she would die, a little prematurely, on the gallows. Frau Witzler listened carefully to the sentence, hid her face in her hands, wept quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seven Who Must Hang | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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